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Legislative business? Forget that. I’ve got a Senate campaign to run!

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  It looks like my prediction that running for the US Senate would shove leadership of the state House into a distant second place is panning out. House Speaker Thom

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP
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Liz Cheney in Wyoming: A textbook case on Shaking Up The Ruling Class

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  The GOP establishment is having a conniption over the audacity of Liz Cheney — daughter of the former VPOTUS — daring to challenge the renomination of a sitting GOP

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media
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Key pundit: Path to GOP majority in US Senate runs through Tar Heel State

Posted on July 18, 2013July 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    New York Times blogger Nate Silver has been pretty doggone prescient in recent years with his election prognostications.  He has an interesting observation regarding the 2014 battle for

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP

For Senate GOP, surrender IS apparently an option

Posted on July 17, 2013July 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    We’ve been hearing all about “a grand compromise” in the US Senate over filibusters and votes over Obama administration nominees.  Let’s review the details of the “compromise”: Harry

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Congress, Media, Politics, Republicans
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Tuesday-morning quarterback: The tax “deal” in Raleigh

Posted on July 17, 2013July 17, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      Well, Civitas has signed off on it: “The tax reform plan will cut personal taxes and simplify taxes for every North Carolinian who works,” said Civitas President

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Economy, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Subject of UK fraud probe picked to oversee Kay & Barry’s beloved ObamaCare

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  We’ve been trying to tell people what a Charlie-Foxtrot ObamaCare was going to be for our economy and our country.  Kay Hagan, Barry Obama and their followers told us

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media
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Legacy Media: Malpractice in the Courtroom

Posted on July 14, 2013July 14, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Well, it looks like the mainstream media and their lefty buddies didn’t quite get the widespread anarchy and chaos they were counting on in the wake of the verdict in

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Media
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Thom Tillis, that pesky Constitution, and that annoying separation of powers thingie

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Brant Clifton

McClatchy’s John Frank is doing his best to play arbiter and peacemaker among Raleigh Republicans. And we thank him for it.  He’s got a piece out about internal bickering among

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, NC legislature, Politics, Thom Tillis
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About that “council” running those pro-Hagan ads

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    Viewers in my neck of the woods are getting peppered with TV ads telling us HOW GREAT Kay Hagan is doing in DC.  They are apparently being produced

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics
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Beaufort County, TOO ???? (The ABCs of meddling)

Posted on July 14, 2013July 14, 2013 by Brant Clifton

I am sensing a pattern here :   Beaufort, Craven, Davidson.    (You folks in Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Granville and Guilford better get ready.) Controversy between a county GOP organization

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campaign 2014, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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